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The blue-gray tanager (thraupis episcopus) is a medium-sized South American songbird of the tanager family, Thraupidae. Its range is from Mexico south to northeast Bolivia and northern Brazil, all of the Amazon Basin, except the very south. The breeding habitat is open woodland, cultivated areas and gardens. The blue-gray tanager lives mainly on fruit, but will also take some nectar, insects and other arthropods.
Costa Rica, La Fortuna
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This is a part of what we call "The Gray Gang." Their flock migrates through our back yard every fall and spring. Many have very light feathers or show pied leucism.
This is a still captured from a video clip taken with Lumix G9 and Leica 100-400.
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The Gray Thrasher is the third purely endemic bird to Baja. Like other thrasher, it is frequently found on the ground where it searches out insects. The GT also favors scrubby areas where it will perch sometimes for the longest times. I found this bird to be very patient. The bird would simply sit and move only minimally as it might eventually look to one side or the other.
Resting on a Pickerel Weed leaf. This little frog was less than an inch in length.
Howard County, Maryland
I watched this cooperative fella go through a series of preening poses. I liked how he paused momentarily holding one of the feathers in his beak.
Wikipedia: The blue-gray gnatcatcher (Polioptila caerulea) is a very small songbird native to North America.
The blue-gray gnatcatcher's breeding habitat includes open deciduous woods and shrublands in southern Ontario, the eastern and southwestern United States, and Mexico. Though gnatcatcher species are common and increasing in number while expanding to the northeast, it is the only one to breed in Eastern North America. They migrate to the southern United States, Mexico, northern Central America (Belize, Guatemala, and Honduras), Cuba, the Bahamas, the Turks and Caicos Islands, and the Cayman Islands.
Conservation status: Least Concern
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If you’re convinced you’ll never be able to learn bird calls, start with the Gray Catbird. Once you’ve heard its catty mew you won’t forget it. Follow the sound into thickets and vine tangles and you’ll be rewarded by a somber gray bird with a black cap and bright rusty feathers under the tail. Gray Catbirds are relatives of mockingbirds and thrashers, and they share that group’s vocal abilities, copying the sounds of other species and stringing them together to make their own song.
Someone at the National Butterfly Center in Mission, TX, told me about a Gray Hawk nest. One morning, I thought I would walk by the nest and look up to see if the birds would be in view. They weren't, so I looked to my right and noticed one of the juveniles perched in the morning sun. It then flew to a different perch and sat next to its sibling.
Very cold day. Everything is frozen and there are no fish. I was hiding in the reeds and managed to take a picture of this beautiful bird.
I have lived 80 years without seeing a gray fox in the wild. Thanks to my friend Bob Haase, who took me to his blind in central Wisconsin, I photographed a whole family.
I was astonished by the colors of this animal. It was a good evening of photography!
gray foxes
photographed from a blind
in rural Wisconsin
Image and haiku by John Henry Gremmer
From Wiki: The gray hawk is found from Costa Rica north into the southwestern United States. feeds mainly on lizards and snakes, but will also take small mammals, birds and frogs. It usually sits on an open high perch from which it swoops on its prey, but will also hunt from a low glide. The nest is of sticks and built high in a tree. The usual clutch is one to three, usually two white to pale blue eggs. The young take about 6 weeks to fledge.
Gray Jay (Perisoreus canadensis) or Canada Jay in the mixed woods of the aspen parkland north of Thorhild, Alberta, Canada.
30 January, 2017.
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Portrait of a Great Gray Owl (Strix nebulosa) in the boreal woods near Thorhild, Alberta, Canada.
30 October, 2018.
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There was a time when this guy wouldn't go to a feeder, he would simply eat berries from a variety of plants in the yard along with some food from the feeder, if it fell to the ground.
However, these days he will go to the main feeding station and toss all of the mealworms to the ground. He and the squirrels must have made a pact, it sure looks like they are in cahoots. I fill the feeder, the catbird empties it and the squirrels come join him at the base of the feeding station; Thus leaving me rolling my eyes and wondering how to keep the birds share in the feeder.
I hope you have a fantastic day, happy snapping.
Much different from the ventral view on my first post.
Elk Island National Park. Strathcona County, Alberta.